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Women's Media Awards 2016 photo feature

Four hundred guests attended the Women’s Media Awards on September 29 at Capitale in New York City.

Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Sally Field was the host for the event. Gayle King, co-anchor of CBS This Morning and three-time Emmy winner, gave opening remarks.

Honorees were: Samantha Bee, host of TBS' Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, who received the WMC History Making Award for being the first woman to host a late-night satirical news show; Salma Hayek Pinault, award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist, who received the WMC Sisterhood Is Global Award for speaking out for women and the underserved around the globe, fighting against discrimination, and working to end domestic violence; Joy Reid, political analyst for MSNBC, host of AM Joy, and author, who accepted the WMC Carol Jenkins Visible and Powerful Media Award for her excellence in journalism; Anita Sarkeesian, award-winning creator and executive director of Feminist Frequency, who received the WMC Digital Media Award for exposing misogyny in video game culture and promoting alternatives; and Regina K. Scully, award-winning producer, executive producer, activist, and philanthropist, who accepted the WMC Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award for her work of over 30 years as a leader in media.

Presenters included WMC co-founders Jane Fonda (via satellite); Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem; WMC President Julie Burton; WMC Board Co-Chair Pat Mitchell, and Founding and Former President Carol Jenkins.

Women's Media Awards host Sally Field on the red carpet. (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty) 

WMC Sisterhood is Global Award recipient Selma Hayek Pinault getting her photo taken on the red carper. (Photo by Bruce Katz) 

WMC Sisterhood Is Global Award recipient Salma Hayek Pinault (left) with Gayle King. (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

Women's Media Awards honorees (from left) Anita Sarkeesian, Samantha Bee, and Regina K. Scully on the red carpet. (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

Women's Media Awards presenters and honorees (from left) Joy Reid, Gloria Steinem, Samantha Bee, Anita Sarkeesian, Robin Morgan, Pat Mitchell, and Julie Burton. 

WMC Vice Chair Janet Dewart Bell (left) with WMC Digital Media Award recipient Anita Sarkeesian. (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

Women's Media Awards host Sally Field (left) with Gayle King. (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

WMC History Making Award recipient Samantha Bee with WMC Co-Founder Gloria Steinem. (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

WMC President Julie Burton (far left) on the red carpet with Women's Media Awards honorees (left to right) Anita Sarkeesian, Salma Hayek Pinault, Regina K. Scully, and Joy Reid. (Photo by Bruce Katz) 

WMC co-founders Gloria Steinem (left) and Robin Morgan (right) with the WMC Carol Jenkins Visible and Powerful Media Award recipient Joy Reid (center). (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

Women's Media Awards host Sally Field (left) with WMC Digital Media Award recipient Anita Sarkeesian. (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

WMC Director of Communications Cristal Williams Chancellor (left) with WMC President Julie Burton and Katti Gray. (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

Journalists (from left to right) Angelica Roch, Laurie Adelman, Courtney Baxter, Jaclyn Friedman, Sally Kohn, Elizabeth Plank, Soraya Chemaly, Elisa Kreislinger on the Women's Media Awards red carpet. (Photo by Bruce Katz) 

WMC Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Regina K. Scully (left) with WMC Board Co-Chair Pat Mitchell. (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

WMC co-founder Robin Morgan (left) with WMC Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Regina K. Scully. (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

Women's Media Center journalists (from left to right) Marya Stark, Julie Zeilinger, Soraya Chemaly, Lauren Wolfe, Jamia Wilson, Priyali Sur, Shelby Knox.(Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

Women's Media Center co-founder Gloria Steinem (center) with honorees Samantha Bee (left) and Salma Hayek Pinault (right). (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

 

 

 

 

 

Gayle King giving her opening remarks at the Women's Media Awards. (Photo by Bruce Katz)

After giving her opening remarks, Gayle King gives host Sally Field a hug before turning the mic over to her. (Photo by Bruce Katz)

Women's Media Awards host Sally Field speaking on stage. (Photo by Bruce Katz)

Women's Media Center President Julie Burton giving a speech at the Women's Media Awards. (Photo by Bruce Katz)

Women's Media Center President Julie Burton showing WMC's weekly newsletter. (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

Women's Media Center President Julie Burton (right) on stage with WMC Digital Media Award recipient Anita Sarkeesian. (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

WMC Digital Media Award recipient Anita Sarkeesian on stage. (Photo by Bruce Katz)

 

WMC Board Co-Chair Pat Mitchell on stage at the Women's Media Awards. (Photo by Bruce Katz)

WMC Board Co-Chair Pat Mitchell on stage with the WMC Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Regina K. Scully. (Photo by Bruce Katz)

WMC Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Regina K. Scully on stage. (Photo by Bruce Katz)

Women's Media Center co-founder Gloria Steinem on stage. (Photo by Bruce Katz)

WMC co-founder Gloria Steinem (right) presenting the WMC Sisterhood Is Global Award to Salma Hayek Pinault. (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

WMC Sisterhood Is Global Award recipient Salma Hayek Pinault speaking on stage. (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

Women's Media Center co-founder Gloria Steinem on stage at the Women's Media Awards. (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

WMC History Making Award recipient Samantha Bee on stage at the Women's Media Awards. (Photo by Cindy Ord and Mike Coppola/Getty)

Women's Media Center Founding and Former President Carol Jenkins on stage at the Women's Media Awards. (Photo by Bruce Katz)

Joy Reid recieves the WMC Carol Jenkins Visible and Powerful Media Award on stage. (Photo by Bruce Katz)

Women's Media Center co-founder Robin Morgan clapping on stage at the Women's Media Awards. (Photo by Bruce Katz)

 

See you pictures from the 2016 Women's Media Awards on WMC's Facebook Album for the event!


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